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This is the last day of our five-day blog tour, and we’re really going out on a high! As you’ll already know, we’re celebrating the re-release of the Butterfly Hunter Trilogy, with thanks to the lovely Lily at Gay Book Promotions. It’s been a fantastic experience, and I’m very grateful to all the bloggers, reviewers and readers taking part!

The main blog post contains all the details about the books, along with an excerpt from the Butterfly Hunter novel.

As I’m writing this, there is just over 24 hours left in which to enter the blog tour’s Rafflecopter giveaway, for the chance to win one of 10 copies of any ebook from my backlist. Please visit any or all of the bloggers, and enter the giveaway. I’m sharing links each day to help you share the love!

Please do visit The Way She Reads for the blog post and giveaway, and a wonderful review of the first book in the trilogy, Butterfly Hunter, from Helena.

The two men get on like a house on fire, despite their differences in nationality and background. Those differences are subtle and never stressed, and yet, they are impossible to miss. Which is just one of the ways in which Julie Bozza’s writing impressed me. I’m in awe of the way she painted pictures in a most understated way and, through some form of writerly magic, managed to make them vivid and alive.

Please visit Crucify my Love: Gay Book Reviews for the blog post and giveaway, a Fangirl’s Zone and a review of the last book in the trilogy, The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring, with 5 (of 6) stars from Kirhan Grimwolf.

In summary, “The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring” is a novel which center point are the two main characters and the topics raised here are like a tight circle that surrounds David and Nicholas. Among many other subjects, the author found a place for the problems of sexuality, acceptance, economic development, love of nature and the romantic one, wedding’s “’til death do us part” and so much more. Undeniably, this book is more serious than the previous volumes of the trilogy, but no less exceptional. It’s definitely worth reading and experiencing this last adventure together with our beloved characters.

Please visit Bayou Book Junkie for the blog post and giveaway, and reviews of each of the three books in the trilogy with 4.25 stars from Ayla.

Butterfly Hunter: This book was sweet and both characters were fleshed out really well. It is also very well written and the description of the characters and their actions was incredible. It was sort of an unassumingly sweet and heartfelt story that made me feel really connected to both characters.

Of Dreams and Ceremonies: There is a bit of a mystery in this story which I really liked, it shook things up a bit. I also adored Bert! I want to see more of him somewhere. Nicholas was just as perfect in this book as in book one. He is super charming and is such an easy character to like! The author does a great job of showing us how much Dave loves Nicholas and how well they are together.

The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring: In this book, Dave and Nicholas have been married seven years so we see how solid their relationship is. This book is not about watching them grow as a couple, but watching them deal with outside elements that did not really happen in the first two books of this series. We see how easy their relationship together is and I think that is how we are able to focus on other obstacles in this book.

We’re into day four of our blog tour celebrating the re-release of the Butterfly Hunter Trilogy, with thanks to the lovely Lily at Gay Book Promotions. I am blown away by all the generous bloggers and reviewers taking part!

The main blog post contains all the details about the books, along with an excerpt from the Butterfly Hunter novel.

As part of the tour we’re also running a Rafflecopter giveaway, for the chance to win one of 10 copies of any ebook from my backlist. Please visit any or all of the bloggers, and enter the giveaway. I’ll share links each day to help you share the love!

Today, you can visit Amy’s MM Romance Reviews for the blog post and giveaway, and reviews of each of the three books in the Trilogy.

Butterfly Hunter (4 stars): Dave and Nicholas’s journey is atmospheric, sweet and enchanting. It is written with a whole lot of heart and nurturing.

Of Dreams and Ceremonies (5 stars): We are witness to the continuation of a beautiful love story between Dave and Nicholas, as they traverse their new lives. The story is simple, sweet and charming. … I adore Of Dreams and Ceremonies and have fallen even more in love with this charming couple.

The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring (4 stars): The love between Dave and Nicholas is as strong as ever. … a fantastic ending for this series.

This is the first book I’ve read by Julie Bozza, and I couldn’t put it down … The characters grabbed me right from the beginning and I found Nicholas, in particular, very endearing. … I’d recommend Butterfly Hunter to readers who enjoy feel-good stories with likeable characters, an interesting, different plot, and fabulous imagery.

Thanks to the awesome Lily at Gay Book Promotions we are well into a blog tour celebrating the re-release of the Butterfly Hunter Trilogy. It’s wonderful to have so many generous bloggers and reviewers taking part!

The main blog post contains all the details about the books, along with an excerpt from the Butterfly Hunter novel.

As part of the tour we’re also running a Rafflecopter giveaway, for the chance to win one of 10 copies of any ebook from my backlist. Please visit any or all of the bloggers, and enter the giveaway. I’ll share links each day to help you share the love!

Today, please visit Crucify my Love: Gay Book Reviews for the blog post and giveaway, a Fangirl’s Zone and a review of the second book in the trilogy, Of Dreams and Ceremonies, with 4 (of 6) stars from Kirhan Grimwolf.

Julie Bozza brought out all the magic in the British Isles and made the best background for the events of this volume out of it. I admit that this is exactly how she enchanted me. … the author also develops the topic of possible difficulties that future spouses might come across as their civil partnership, although legal, will not be recognized as such everywhere in the world. … Julie Bozza thought about the relationship between her characters really deeply and she really understands the situation they are in.

I’m really loving the Fangirl’s Zone in these blog posts, and I have to say I’d just die to read fic for any of these prompts, but maybe the second prompt in particular!

Thanks to the awesome Lily at Gay Book Promotions we have a blog tour happening as part of the re-release of the Butterfly Hunter Trilogy. It’s fantastic to have so many wonderful bloggers and reviewers taking part!

The main blog post contains all the details about the books, along with an excerpt from the Butterfly Hunter novel.

As part of the tour we’re also running a Rafflecopter giveaway, for the chance to win one of 10 copies of any ebook from my backlist. Please visit any or all of the bloggers, and enter the giveaway. I’ll share links each day to help you share the love!

I truly enjoyed this trilogy as we meet and go through the relationship between Dave and Nicholas. … I enjoyed the slow development of Dave and Nicolas’s relationship as they build a solid friendship first before they explore their feelings for one another. … The connection between the two men is beautiful …

The awesome Lily at Gay Book Promotions has organised a blog tour for me as part of the re-release of the Butterfly Hunter Trilogy – and I’m really delighted by all the wonderful bloggers and reviewers who are taking part.

The main blog post contains all the details about the books, along with an excerpt from the Butterfly Hunter novel.

As part of the tour we’re also running a Rafflecopter giveaway, for the chance to win one of 10 copies of any ebook from my backlist. Please visit any or all of the bloggers, and enter the giveaway. I’ll share links each day to help you share the love!

In summary, “Butterfly Hunter” is a novel about which you can say a lot of good things. It is smartly written, funny and hot. The reader quickly befriends all the characters and with real pleasure follows their love affairs in beautiful, wild Australia. This is one of those books that fill people with positive energy and the desire to live.

Visit My Fiction Nook for the blog post and giveaway, and a review and 4.5 stars from Karen.

It’s been a long time…maybe ever, since I’ve found a story that felt as genuine and organic in its progression as this one.

Visit Gay Book Reviews for the blog post and giveaway, and a review and 5+ stars from Feliz.

This book was enchanting, with finely drawn, adorable characters and a delicate, tender love story that was to die for. … The characters are the backbone to this story. … But the greatest lure of this book lay in the writing itself, which was exquisite.

With my new paperback launched, I am running my usual giveaway on Goodreads.

There are 10 copies available, and any Goodreads member can enter from anywhere in the world.

This story takes place during a performance of Francis Beaumont’s play The Knight of the Burning Pestle in the beautiful Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Beaumont’s play features layers of story, with two-plays-within-a-play. I add another layer around that, with a story about two of the actors and their relationship, following them backstage.

It’s the sort of mash-up I think would at least feel familiar to Beaumont, who broke some new ground with this early-modern play that is experienced as so post-modern today.

If you give it a try, I hope you’ll enjoy it even a third as much as I enjoyed writing it!

I am taking part in a BookSweeps giveaway which features Seasoned Contemporary Romances – that is, romances featuring main characters who are aged over forty. My offering, of course, is my novel The Apothecary’s Garden, which features Hilary Kent, a 65-year-old man who falls in love with a much younger graduate student, Tom Lawrence.

Now, for those who love their romances gay, I should say up-front that the other books available in the giveaway all seem to be male-female romances. But for those of us who enjoy reading about older people with love-lives, it might not matter so much about the orientation.

The Grand Prize winner receives a Kindle Fire and a copy of all the participating books – over thirty of them, and including mine, of course! And one runner-up receives a copy of all the participating books.

As you may recall, I made ten copies of my revised Keats novel The Fine Point of His Soul available for a giveaway on Goodreads. I was astonished by the grand total of 1297 entries! Thank you so much to everyone who is keen to give this one a try.

The giveaway was open globally, and we had a nice range of locations from the winners: three in the United States, three in Britain, and one each in Australia, Italy, the Philippines, and Portugal.

I have just placed the last of these orders – and though these things always seem to take time to process, hopefully the winners will receive their books within the next few weeks.

Thank you again for your interest, and I hope that readers enjoy this Gothic ripping yarn!

With the launch of my latest novel The ‘True Love’ Solution in paperback, I’ve done my usual giveaway on Goodreads – and an astonishing 1004 people entered!!! That certainly breaks all my previous records. Though it might be explained by me opening it up to every country available.

And that might also explain the results, as drawn by Goodreads, which featured one reader each from Belgium, Canada and Greece, and two from India. The books are now winging their way to you, and will arrive some time during March. Apologies for any delays to those whose books have further to travel!

I hope you all have fun with the characters I had so much fun with while writing.

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I received a free copy of this novella from the author - the wonderful Relle - in return for an honest review.
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